• Sergey Senozhatsky's avatar
    zram: do not lookup algorithm in backends table · dc899972
    Sergey Senozhatsky authored
    Always use crypto_has_comp() so that crypto can lookup module, call
    usermodhelper to load the modules, wait for usermodhelper to finish and so
    on.  Otherwise crypto will do all of these steps under CPU hot-plug lock
    and this looks like too much stuff to handle under the CPU hot-plug lock. 
    Besides this can end up in a deadlock when usermodhelper triggers a code
    path that attempts to lock the CPU hot-plug lock, that zram already holds.
    
    An example of such deadlock:
    
    - path A. zram grabs CPU hot-plug lock, execs /sbin/modprobe from crypto
      and waits for modprobe to finish
    
    disksize_store
     zcomp_create
      __cpuhp_state_add_instance
       __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
        zcomp_cpu_up_prepare
         crypto_alloc_base
          crypto_alg_mod_lookup
           call_usermodehelper_exec
            wait_for_completion_killable
             do_wait_for_common
              schedule
    
    - path B. async work kthread that brings in scsi device. It wants to
      register CPUHP states at some point, and it needs the CPU hot-plug
      lock for that, which is owned by zram.
    
    async_run_entry_fn
     scsi_probe_and_add_lun
      scsi_mq_alloc_queue
       blk_mq_init_queue
        blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
         blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
          __cpuhp_state_add_instance
           __cpuhp_state_add_instance_cpuslocked
            mutex_lock
             schedule
    
    - path C. modprobe sleeps, waiting for all aync works to finish.
    
    load_module
     do_init_module
      async_synchronize_full
       async_synchronize_cookie_domain
        schedule
    
    [senozhatsky@chromium.org: add comment]
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624060606.1014474-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220622023501.517125-1-senozhatsky@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    dc899972
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